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Exopterygota (insects with wings developing externally)

Further Information

Notes (MWS) These insects have wingless juvenile forms (eg nymphs) which often look fairly similar to the adults, albeit with wings reduced or absent. Development from the juvenile to the adult form (metamorphosis) proceeds by a series of stages (instars) which (in the winged species) have increasingly developed wings leading to the fully-winged adult.

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs
Order DERMAPTERA (earwigs) 3 23 1   11
Order DICTYOPTERA (cockroaches) 3 46 38   10
Order HEMIPTERA (bugs) 108 478 377 3 105
Order HOMOPTERA (bugs) 57 120 107   89
Order ORTHOPTERA (grasshoppers and crickets) 26 189 63 1 40
Order PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice) 2 9     8
Order PLECOPTERA (stoneflies) 4 60 11 6 2
Order PSOCOPTERA (booklice and barklice or barkflies) 3   7   6
Order THYSANOPTERA (thrips)   3 2   4

Suggested Literature

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 73 general literature references to Exopterygota (insects with wings developing externally)

Exopterygota may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
INSECTA
(insects)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 3617 feeding and other relationships of Exopterygota (insects with wings developing externally)

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